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...showing two planes aimed at each other from 50 miles away," says Barry Krasner, president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association. "Your equipment goes down for [six] minutes. When your equipment comes back up, where are those two airplanes? The answer is that they're two miles apart, nose to nose, with a closure rate of 800 m.p.h. and less than five seconds to make a course correction...
...terrific nose for a story. One of the biggest in New York circa 1909 was illicit prizefighting, and Bellows made intensely vivid and memorable images of it. Ashcan painting, in its description of the Darwinian world of fists evoked by American realist writers like Frank Norris and Jack London, lagged behind literature by 10 years or more, but its attachment to images of clash and struggle aligned it squarely with the American cultural ideology of the day--Theodore Roosevelt's praise of the strenuous life...
...ROCKY MOUNTAIN Arsenal cranked out 300,000 M-55 rockets, which are now stockpiled at five of the nation's chemical-weapons storage sites. Too late, the Army discovered that the design of the weapon has a potentially fatal flaw: sarin, the deadly poison that was packed into the nose cone, tends to corrode the aluminum casing. And sarin leaking into the rear chamber accelerates the decay of the stabilizing agent that prevents the rocket fuel from "auto-igniting.'' Because there is no way to safely dismantle the rocket, the deadly nerve agent and the volatile fuel have been locked...
...clear now. After talking to Dewey Cheatham '65, Assistant Dean in Charge of Study Cards, I understand why we must pay through the nose for late cards...
McLaughlin was thrown out of the vehicle and landed semi-conscious in the street, according to the police report. He suffered a broken nose and lacerations requiring 40 stitches...